Mare Landsnail (Leucocharis loyaltiensis)
The Mare Landsnail was described in 1879; it was endemic to the island of Maré in the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia.
The shells reach sizes of about 2.9 to 3.2 cm in height; they are fusiform, thin, greyish white with sparsely scattered translucent grey dots, spots or streaks, bordered on the left with opaque white, the surface is shining, lightly striate and inconspicuously grooved spirally; the aperture is oblong-ovate, white within, the peristome is expanded and white, the columella is dilated above and has a weak entering fold.
The species appears to be extinct now.
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syn. Bulimus loyaltyensis Souverbie
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(public domain)
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References:
[1] George W. Tryon; Henry A. Pilsbry; a.o.: Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Vol 13: Australasian Bulimulidae: Bothriembryon, Placostylus. Helicidae: Amphidromus. 1900
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edited: 17.02.2024